Meringued Coffee ~1897

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Screenshot-2017-11-3 Montgomery Ward co 's Common sense cookery — Montgomery Ward and Co’s Common Sense Cookery, 1897, Meringued Coffee Recipe

Meringued Coffee Recipe.

Lots of early coffee recipes use various parts of eggs for fining and flavoring. Whipped cream isn’t uncommon, but this is the first recipe I’ve come across that calls for a meringue and whipped cream concoction.

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Tasty Eats Ronit Penso says:

January 29, 2018 at 9:23 am

It is quite strange, to mix meringue with whipped cream. I can’t see how it can keep together. Maybe they mixed it just before serving?

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1. Convivial Supper says:
  
  January 29, 2018 at 7:08 pm
  
  I have no idea – I had the same issue with whipping the egg whites into mashed potatoes, didn’t work very well.
  
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Anonymous says:

January 29, 2018 at 7:15 pm

I thought meringues were baked?

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1. Convivial Supper says:
  
  January 30, 2018 at 9:41 am
  
  I could see a soft meringue working…maybe? No idea.
  
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